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One day it was discovered, that the baker was stealing goods from his Count. This was a very serious crime in those days (and is still today!). 
The yard baker was condemned to the death penalty. The Count however didn't want to loose his famous baker, so he decided to give him a chance to save his life. The baker was to invent a new pastry within only 3 days, through which the sun could shine 3 times.
The baker was completely driven to despair. He didn't have any idea. Suddenly, as he was watching his wife, leaning in the door frame with crossed arms, talking with a neighbor, a thought came to him: he would try to imitate the form of the crossed arms with his pastry. So with that the task was fulfilled and the sun could shine through the pastry 3 times.
The lye on the brezel came by coincidence: The baker's cat, lying beside the oven, jumped up suddenly and swept the brezels into a tub with hot caustic solution, which had been prepared for spicing soup and fish. There was no time to make another pastry. It had to be this one, with the lye. At first the baker was astonished with the result and then the Count as well.
Since the child had no name, the wife of the Count - a lady from Italy - was asked for her opinion. She remembered the latin word for little arms: "bracchia" and the name for crossed hands: "brazula". To keep the pronunciation simple, the name BRAZEL was adopted and later on changed into BREZEL. |
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* Urach is a town in Baden-Wuerttemberg, the southwestern part of Germany. |
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